Charles Nicholl (author)

Charles Nicholl is an award-winning English author specializing in works of history, biography, literary detection, and travel. His subjects have included Christopher Marlowe, Arthur Rimbaud, Leonardo Da Vinci, Thomas Nashe, and most recently William Shakespeare. Besides his literary output, Nicholl has also presented documentary programs on television. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and has lectured in Britain, Italy and the United States.

He was educated at King's College, Cambridge.

Nicholl lives in Italy with his wife and children.^[1]

Selected works

• The Reckoning: The Murder of Christopher Marlowe (1992 winner of the James Tait Black Prize for biography and the CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction)
• Somebody Else: Arthur Rimbaud in Africa (1998 winner of the Hawthornden Prize)
• Leonardo Da Vinci: Flights of the Mind
• The Lodger: Shakespeare on Silver Street

References

1. ^ Boyd Tonkin, Charles Nicholl: Low life, high art, The Independent

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